girls:
55 births since 1913
#5661 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 1886
#2070 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1886
#4532 (41st percentile)
The name Florian is the #4,532 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,655 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 41.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,070 (54.8% percentile) for all time with 3,600 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,661 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1913.
Florian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1913 for girls). Birth data for Florian is available in 126 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (126 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Florian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Florian reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 22.3% percentile (ranked #402) with 126 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 126 births per million (ranked 22.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Florian ranks #880 for boys (3.4% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 15.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Florian reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #602) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1935.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Florian".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Florian is pronounced as FLAW-ree-uhn, which has 3 syllables.
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